Chapter 4 Hunger with refined salt
Everything in the world is always changing, and even the eternal stubborn rocks disappear every day at a rate that is invisible to the naked eye. The only thing that doesn't change? This question is too profound, Wang Xingxin thought about it in the middle of the night, and couldn't think about it, sister, oh, it should be the solution. Never mind! It's better to leave such an esoteric question to others to think about, and now I just want Comrade Liu Lao Er to go to Chang'an City to sell salt on the third watch, when will he come back.
The sun was three poles up, and the autumn noon sun shone on Wang Xingxin's snow-like delicate ass through the leaky firewood room. The white dazzle is like the snow-white refined salt refined yesterday...... Stretching his waist greatly, Wang Xingxin, who was awakened, screamed and put on his clothes as quickly as he could, and ran to the land of grain reincarnation with bare feet. There was a commotion, accompanied by a roar, Wang Xingxin, who was refreshed, sadly found that there was no tissue paper, and he looked forward to the surrounding except for the dirt and the soil, and the ......
After about a quarter of an hour of careful selection, Wang Xingxin finally picked out a few relatively delicate pieces of soil, closed his eyes and began to clean up the chrysanthemums. However, life is like chocolate, and no one knows what the next one will taste like, so it is not surprising that the dirt is broken......
Staggered to the well, punched out two buckets of water, and after washing his hands more than a dozen times, Wang Xingxin sneaked into the firewood room. Sitting on the bed in a daze, Wang Xingxin slapped himself hard, he hated it! I hate why I didn't study hard at the beginning, why he didn't want to go to the county paper mill to recruit workers, or now at least I know how to make paper, at least I won't suffer chrysanthemums, and my fingers smell. Remorseful, Wang Xingxin, who had been reflecting for less than three minutes, put on the shoes that I didn't know who sent them, let's call them shoes. Walking out of the firewood house and starting to wander around the village, in fact, the main reason was that he was hungry again, and wanted to see where the smoke rose and wanted to have a meal. He felt to himself that with the great merit of making refined salt, the villagers must not skimp on a few pieces of corn cake and his preserved fruit.
Things are often the case that after calculating people's hearts correctly, they find that they have missed the time. None of the other four households in the village, not counting Liu Laoer, raised the smoke, breakfast time had passed, and lunch time had not yet arrived. It's really a time and a fate...... I had no choice but to pour a stomach full of well water......
Most of the people living in the 21st century have a weak physical resistance, although Wang Xingxin has crossed it, but he has not undergone any systematic transformation, and there is no rebellion. Not surprisingly, he had diarrhea, and drank the well water that was not too clean and did not boil. So the soil is broken, broken, chrysanthemums hurt, wash your hands...... After circulating it a few times, Wang Xingxin's hungry wolf-like eyes looked at the linen cloth drying in the yard, which was the linen cloth used to refine refined salt yesterday. I tore four half-foot-square pieces of linen and hid them in my arms, and saw that there was no one around. Wang Xingxin didn't care about the hot and painful chrysanthemum, walked into the firewood room quickly, lay on the bed motionless, and kept "hissing" in his mouth...... Oh..... Hiss ......"
He had already thought of his rhetoric, what if Liu Lao Er asked Mabu? He replied that he was hungry and had nothing to eat, and that he was powerless to chase after him when a vicious wind blew away his numbness. Very good and powerful reason indeed. Wang Xingxin, who was lying on the bed and moaning weakly, suddenly discovered a serious problem: at the meeting yesterday, he forgot to ask Liu Laoer, who went to Chang'an City to sell salt, to buy some daily necessities and the most important grain for him after selling the money. So he began to hate again, why was he lazy, didn't he get up on the third watch. Isn't it just a walk of dozens of miles..... There is no reason why you are only lazy. Feeling that a slap was not enough to solve the psychological problem, he slapped himself again, and it was quite loud.
Wang Xingxin, who was lying on the bed, vaguely heard someone laughing outside, and after a while, the voice became louder and louder, and he heard Liu Laoer's unique Guanzhong voice. At this time, he suddenly felt that the chrysanthemum was no longer painful, and his whole body was full of strength. jumped out of bed and ran out of the firewood room, and unexpectedly saw Liu Lao Er and his party of seven people with a smile on their faces. Some of the seven carried grain bags, some carried burdens, some carried baskets, and some carried silk cloths...... Liu Gangzi was still carrying two chickens in his hands.
"Wang Xiaolangjun, do you know how much our refined salt is sold? A full thirty-four times, and the consistent pound of refined salt was snatched up after a short time. Three babies! Fast! Take the money to Xiao Langjun and show it. ”
A strong young man in his twenties untied the basket he was carrying, Wang Xingxin saw that the basket was full of copper coins, reached out and grabbed a handful and threw it into the basket and thought wildly, it was the sound of money, it was really good.
"Xiao Langjun, there are only ten yuan in this basket, and the rest has been replaced with silver cakes at the second uncle." The third baby explained to Wang Xingxin why there was only a basket of copper coins. In fact, as long as the currency of the Tang Dynasty is still based on this Kaiyuan Tongbao, there is also silk cloth, or barter. Gold and silver are not much in circulation. After all, not long after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there was an urgent shortage of gold and silver.
"Uncle Liu, let's not talk about the money, I wonder if Uncle Liu bought some food for the kid and other living utensils?"
"Haha, Xiao Langjun don't worry, how can the old man forget that this time he earned 34 yuan from selling salt, and Xiao Langjun got 23 yuan and 800 yuan for seven achievements. The old man bought rice grain, cloth, iron pots and other products for Xiao Langjun with three yuan and two hundred yuan, and the remaining twenty yuan and six hundred yuan. Xiao Langjun, do you think there is a miscalculation? ”
"Uncle Liu is polite, how can the kid He De ask for seventy percent alone? I also bothered the uncle and all the brothers and uncles to carry back these much-needed things for me, and the boy saw that the remaining silver money was still divided equally between the six families. ”
"This can't be done, can't be helped, Xiao Langjun don't want to postpone it, if you don't have your salt making method, don't say that it's thirty percent of ten dollars, even ten cents! Five of us can get 30 percent and more than one can get 2 miles, which is a lot. The old man has lived for such a long time and has never seen so much silver money once, so Xiao Langjun should not postpone it any longer! ”
"Uncle Liu, I see that the uncle and all the uncles and brothers are shoulder-to-shoulder, hand-lifted, the kid is willing to use these silver money to buy a carriage for everyone to use, even if it is a public-owned carriage in the village, what does the uncle think?"
Before Liu Lao Er could speak in a hurry, Liu Gangzi said anxiously: "Xiao Langjun, can you change it to a cow?" The price of cattle and horses is not much different, but the cattle can plough the land during spring ploughing, there are only five households in our Yuanlou Village, and the government is not divided into the ploughing cattle, and we can't afford it, now Lang Jun makes salt in exchange for silver money, can you buy a ploughing cow, the cow can also pull the cart, Lang Jun rest assured, the ox cart will be small, and it can be made into an ox cart in two days, Xiao Langjun! ”
"Two bars! You're a coward! That's Wang Xiaolangjun's silver money! You're in a hurry! Give the forehead a dead open! Xiao Langjun is not to blame the bar for being anxious, because there are no ploughing cattle in the village, the father of the bar was so tired that he vomited blood when he pulled the plough last spring! Alas! ”
"Uncle, Mo Ya said Brother Gongzi, you just said to the boy how much silver money is to plough the cow."
"Now there are ten good ploughing cattle in the market."
"Uncle, let's buy two heads in our village, I'll pay for this money! That's it! Two ploughing cows are enough for six of our families! ”
After listening to Liu Laoer's words, Wang Xingxin looked at the tearful pole, and decided to buy two ploughing cattle without anyone else's words.
"Xiao Langjun is a good man! The whole village has kowtowed to Lang Jun! ”
After speaking, Liu Gangzi knelt down heavily and kowtowed to Wang Xingxin, and Wang Xingxin hurriedly pulled Liu Gangzi up.
"Brother Gongzi, what are you doing? The kid is not from Yuanlou Village? Uncle Liu said. In the past few days, he took me to the household registration, and I am the sixth household in Yuanlou Village. Could it be that Brother Liu Gangzi will treat me as an outsider? ”
"Xiao Langjun, the old man dares to guarantee that no half of the village will treat you as an outsider, originally the old man also wanted to Datang Juntian, one hundred acres of land, although we are close to Chang'an, there are many people and few land, but we can also get thirty acres of land. The old man thought that you can't plant 30 acres of land alone, so let my Liu family divide 20 acres and only give you 10 acres of land. How could I think that Xiaolang Junda knew how to make salt, and the silver money he obtained was used to buy cattle in the village, alas! The heroes have done it! I did it next! ”
After saying that, he slapped his face, and Wang Xingxin hurriedly stopped him.
"Uncle Liu, don't say it's thirty acres of land, even three acres of land can't be planted, and the kid doesn't know how to farm, so it's better to give the kid some preserved grains and fruits to the kid, and let's not sell refined salt this time, this is a good way to make a fortune, and the kid still needs to farm?"
Wang Xingxin looked at Liu Lao Er with a smile as if he was a rich man, and decided with a wave of his hand. Just when he was pretending to be B, his stomach rumbled again, and he couldn't help but swallow when he looked at the chicken in Liu Gangzi's hand. Said sarcastically: "That, Uncle Liu, Brother Gongzi, uncles, if you really want to thank the kid, cook this chicken for the kid to eat, after you left, I didn't eat or drink, I'm about to starve to death, the kid is hungry!" ”